Xming for Microsoft Windows

Overview

Xming provides a minimalist X
windows server for use on Microsoft
Windows. Using Xming with an SSH client
program lets you run applications on
UNIX hosts (e.g., Strauss) but have the
graphical display, keyboard, and mouse
managed by your PC. This is useful for
many mathematical, statistical, and
engineering applications (e.g., Matlab,
SAS, GAMBIT).

This document describes how to download
and install Xming and to configure SSH
to use X11-tunneling. Several
open-source SSH clients will work
(e.g., puTTY SSH, Cygwin's OpenSSH),
but only ssh.com's Secure Shell client
is fully supported at the University of
Delaware.

Downloading and Installing the Software

SSH client prerequisite

UD's supported SSH Secure Shell client
can be downloaded from the University's
UDeploy
site. The IT Support Center help pages
contain a general link for
SSH.